Good movies that (mostly) take place in a single location - General Discussion Discussion

[–] moviechatterer (13948) 10 months ago

The Man from Earth

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[–] Moonglum9 (10820) 10 months ago

Pointing up finger

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[–] Tonez78 (517) 10 months ago

Inside with William Dafoe (2023).

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

Saw a trailer for that while back. Will put it on my list.

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[–] Tonez78 (517) 10 months ago

If you have Peacock it’s on there for free. Or it should be on there idk if they removed it already or not.

Was a decent movie. Like the artistic direction but I think it’s going to be one of those movies people love or hate.

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[–] Rockman4 (1604) 10 months ago

Clerks (1994)
Cube (1997)
Unknown (2006)
Rope (1948)

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[–] parkerbot (6170) 10 months ago

Nefarious from 2023 takes place pretty much in a room in a prison.

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[–] 102000 (6160) 10 months ago

Misery (1990)

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[–] KLPE (525) 10 months ago

Security (2017)
Intruder (1989)
Dead Calm (1989)
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
How Awful About Allan (1970)
Creepozoids (1987)
Crash and Burn (1990)
Mindwarp (1991)
The Rental (2020)
Prison (1988)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Unhinged (1982)
The End of the Tour (2015)
Dead Fire (1997)
The Hospital (2013)
Stranded (1987)
Dredd (2012)

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

Dredd was excellent! Wish we got a sequel.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Agreed 100%
Excellent action movie👍
I’ve seen it like four or five times. It’s a shame we got no sequel.

Same with King Conan, that really should have happened but at this point I suppose the ship has sailed, Arnold is a lot older now and seems disinterested. Too bad.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

Ya. Shame that never happened. Wish he got another chance at Conan than returning for mediocre Terminator sequels.

But I guess Conan isn't a big name brand like Terminator.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Sadly true.

I still have R.E. Howard’s Conan short stories in paperbacks, I’ve read them all many times. He was a great writer, he had an economy of words to rival Steinbeck or Hemingway. One short paragraph could describe an entire scene and mood. Howard was brilliant in his short life.

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[–] KLPE (525) 10 months ago

Agreed, much better than Judge Dredd (1995), actually.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Yeah, I didn’t like that one so much. It was just OK.

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[–] Mattc164 (608) 10 months ago

Every single movie ever made was filmed in the Milky Way Galaxy.
So every movie fits.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

We're living in a simulation. Nothing is real & all that.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Damn bro, you just gave away a big secret. Just don’t talk about Fight Club!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Glengarry Glen Ross is a personal favorite, what a cast!

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

Man oh man, that one has been recommended to me so many freaking times

It's been on my list for ages.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

I hope you love it.
It’s dialogue driven, a bunch of guys worried about their jobs, no action or anything like that but the cast is so strong and the lines are so sharp it really captivates you. I love this one👍

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

I hope to (finally) cross that & Shindler's List off my list, some time this year.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Schinder’s List is a great movie too. I read the book as well, it’s interesting. That guy had big balls, he saved hundreds of people from the Nazi bastards at great risk to his livelihood and life. Quite a wild true story.

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[–] Nanook (1514) 10 months ago

It will do you one or two things to you if you weren’t already: make you a Jack Lemmon fan and a David Mamet fan. You could do worse things than explore both their catalogs.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

OK, "make me" a John Mamet fan. I'm already a big fan of Jack Lemmon.

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[–] Nanook (1514) 10 months ago

This is already turning more aggressive than I had anticipated, but here are a few of my favorite screenplays by him:

The Edge (1997)
Ronin (1998)
Wag the Dog (1997)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Verdict (1982)
Redbelt (2008)

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

The Untouchables, great movie, I forgot Mamet had a hand in writing it.
Such great lines…’Leave it to a WOP to bring a knife to a gunfight’ LOL!

Great stuff👍

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

Ya, sorry about that. That came off way more confrontational than I intended. lol

I'll add Redbelt & The Verdict to the list. I've seen The Untouchables & Ronin. Both of them are excellent!

I haven't seen The Edge since I was a kid. Will have to rewatch.

And I watched Wag the Dog when I was in high school but I genuinely don't remember much from it. Will have to rewatch it as well.

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[–] Nanook (1514) 10 months ago

No worries. Went a little overboard for comic effect, myself.

The Edge was one of those movies I didn’t have high hopes for while browsing a video store with a gf, but it was her pick for the weekend, and hot damn, did it deliver!

If you have a penchant for wilderness survival films (esp. bears) may I also recommend Backcountry (2014), which leans more towards raw, grisly man vs. nature horror, than man vs. man using a bear as a weapon.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4026) 10 months ago

I love survival movies. Adding it to the list

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[–] Nanook (1514) 10 months ago

In that case may I recommend one of my favorites, and weirdest examples of the genre: The Long Weekend (1978 or 2008 versions are both great).

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

Backcountry was pretty good and alarming!

Fine movie. We get the Black Bears around here, but they tend to be small garbage can stealers, they run off if they hear your dog or see you. They don’t seem to want any trouble.

I’ve got something in the garage just in case they want to act fresh.

💥💥💥💥💥

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[–] Nanook (1514) 10 months ago

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Backcountry did for me for camping what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean. Can still enjoy both, but with a bit of terror lurking in the back of my consciousness much of the time…

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

I hear you.

I love camping.👍

Before I married this sweet Lady I’m now married to for nearly twenty years I took her camping on one of our early car trips together.

I stuffed a Mossberg Model 500 pump 12 gauge and several boxes of shells under the rear truck seat, you know, so as not to scare her.
Just as a precaution.

I didn’t think she’d notice. Stupid me, these women notice everything!

She found the shotty and shells and she gave me hell!

We were in bear country so what did this woman expect?
We are still happily married, she just thinks I’m a maniac. Love will kill you quicker than lightening!

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[–] Nanook (1514) 10 months ago

This is why I am a CCW proponent. Tough to do with Mossies and the like… :D

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73282) 10 months ago

We’re likely going for our legal pistol permits soon. Just paying off some bills first…She wants a semi auto 9 Millie. I prefer a revolver, always have. But I just had a furnace and central air system replaced, these house bills never end!

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[–] FredBurroughs (20124) 10 months ago

Who's John Mamet?

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[–] Kowalski (62656) 10 months ago

🙂

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